Please don't zap old submissions. I've been taking almost exclusively older
ones that have been around since August. The older ones are definitely
worthwhile.
Mickey
Nnoooo! Don't zap old submissions! I've been tackling some of the old Japan-related stuff, but it takes a good bit of work, so it's slow. But it's interesting, and uncommon, so I think they're worth it. Tracy
At 10:45 PM 2/10/05 -0800, you wrote:trying to meet, including over a 1000 books submitted by a university thatSue,
The meeting is actually tomorrow. We have several other targets we're
need to be processed, and 200 Spanish books that need our attention. We can
certainly stop flooding the download page with what we've processed in-house
and validate those in the office.page has fluctuate between 200 and 500 books awaiting validtion. The
I hate to say this, but since I've been here (long enough), the step one
backlog on the approvals is a reflection of being understaffed, but the
download page is relatively normal. . .just on the high end. I'm going
through and zapping some of the really old submissions that haven't been
touched in say, a year. Other than that, it's up to you as volunteers to
figure out how much time and attention you want to spend on your validations.
Thanks, Marissa
-----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of siss52 Sent: Thu 2/10/2005 9:20 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: More Awards for Bookshare?
Marissa SAID last week they were having a meeting this week and she would ask about in-house vols helping with validations.. How about it, Marissa?
Sue S.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary Otten" <maryotten@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 9:24 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: More Awards for Bookshare?
I guess I'm somewhere in the middle on this discussion. Because of the heavy
validation backlog, I'd like it a lot if some of the in house volunteers
would be interested, if they could pitch in on the validation side, since
it clearly generally involves a whole lot more time than what was initially
envisioned. On the other hand, I do like the idea of special projects, like
Pulitzers or Newberries etc, rather than just pumping out the latest book
of interest this month, which nobody will remember a year from now. It seems
to me that many best sellers and book of the month selections will take care
of themselves, because they are of immediate popular interest,
so they are more likely to be picked up by an existing member and scanned.
Of course, for the big long block busters of mega-interest, like Harry
Potter or the Clinton autobiography, the in house volunteers did do
those. I also appreciate the in house volunteers taking a shot at more
difficult titles, like cookbooks, which are really difficult to do well if
you can't see the original copy. I wonder if it would be worth it to see if
in house
volunteers might be interested also in validating some of the more difficult
titles, such as the nonfictions that contain notes, maps and the like, which
can really benefit from somebody following with the printed copy.
Mary
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